Riot Games, creator of standard free-to-play multiplayer titles League of Legends and Valorant, has an attention-grabbing new rent in the kind of Brian Wright. Wright, previously an government at Netflix, joins Riot as the firm’s chief content material officer.
As reported by IGN, Wright will help with the improvement of new movie, animation and TV tasks for Riot’s entertainment division. This would possibly embrace Arcane, an animated League of Legends series that is coming to Netflix later in the yr.
On becoming a member of Riot Games, Wright mentioned he was “beyond thrilled” to be half of the firm. “I can’t wait to bring more vibrant stories to players and fans around the world,” he added.
Wright had fairly the monitor report at Netflix, too. He beforehand labored on hit exhibits like Stranger Things and (the admittedly controversial) 13 Reasons Why. His new function will contain bringing standard Riot properties to numerous media such as animation and movie.
Analysis: League is not going anyplace
Riot already had massive plans for League of Legends particularly. Not solely is the MOBA going sturdy on PC (and cell because of League of Legends: Wild Rift), different tasks are additionally in the works. Riot can also be working on a League of Legends RPG, Ruined King, as effectively as a preventing recreation at the moment codenamed Project L.
League of Legends is Riot’s child, and as one of the hottest video games on the planet, it is solely pure that the firm would need to increase the property to embody as many various types of media as doable. The hiring of an ex-Netflix government like Brian Wright performs into this.
League of Legends is loaded with attention-grabbing lore and characters, so we’re undoubtedly excited to see which parts of League’s overarching narrative could be explored in the realms of movie and animation.
Hopefully the enlargement into these mediums will not be an excessive amount of, too quick, although. There’s already a good quantity of League of Legends tasks in the works, so we might be to see Riot carry different properties, like Valorant, to our favourite streaming platforms.
